Carlile House, Heritage listed site in Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand

Carlile House is a two-storey brick building in Grey Lynn featuring Italianate architecture with limestone details, arched windows, and a central columned portico. The structure requires substantial repairs and currently remains closed to the public due to its deteriorating condition.

Edward Costley's £12,500 bequest funded the Costley Training Institute, built in 1886 on land bought in 1885 by trustees William Crush Daldy, Shirley Whitfield Hill and Theodore Minet Haultain. It housed apprentices until closing in 1908, then served as the Richmond Road Children's Home and, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Hukarere Maori Girls' School. A Tongan community group bought it in 1976; the United Church of Tonga owns it today.

The building reflects the neighborhood's connection to different communities, particularly the Tongan population who have used it since 1976. Its shifting purposes show how the area and its residents' needs changed over time.

The house sits on Richmond Road in Grey Lynn and is inaccessible to the public due to safety concerns and deteriorating conditions. Visitors can view the building's exterior and architectural features from the street.

The 2002 dance works The Carlile House Project and Strange Fruit, funded by Auckland City Council's creative communities initiative, used five rooms of the building to explore Tongan migration to New Zealand between 1950 and 2002. The chapel was enlarged in 1978 to seat 300 worshippers and dedicated to the late Tongan queen Sālote Tupou III, becoming the city's first Tongan church.